Cultural anthropophagy in Brazilian receptions of the classics

Abstract

This article tries to articulate the concepts of anthropophagy with its ramifications in Brazilian culture, especially through the ways by which some possible receptions of the ancient world are intermingled with the metaphors of cannibalism and/or anthropophagy. The analyses propose an overview of a line starting with Oswald de Andrade’s “Cannibalist Manifesto” which passes through Haroldo de Campos’ poem “Finismundo” and a production of the “Bacchae” by Teatro Oficina, and closes with an approximation between the notion of literary translation and anthropophagy.